Torri Ellman

I help brands turn creative vision into measurable results. As a Creative Director, I blend design expertise, data-informed strategy, and cross-functional leadership to build brand awareness, scale campaigns, and drive engagement. Highlights include scaling email campaigns from 200K to over 1M messages per month, reducing redesign costs by $10K+ per month, and overseeing multi-disciplinary teams of in-house staff (programmers, marketing assistants, graphic designers, animators) plus freelancers, videographers, and voice-over artists across multiple simultaneous projects. I specialize in brand strategy, integrated marketing, digital campaigns, visual storytelling, workflow optimization, and performance marketing. I’m passionate about mentoring teams, solving complex creative challenges, and delivering campaigns that make a real impact. Whether you need full-time or fractional/project-based leadership, I bring hands-on expertise, strategic vision, and outcomes-driven creativity. Let’s connect to explore how I can help your brand grow.

Projects

Samples

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Work History

Founder & Creative Director

Ellman Designs | Creative AgencyFocused on the creative design and marketing space for clients. Marketing resources include but are not limited to: Marketing collateral - print, web, email communications. Write and edit scripts for informational and training videos. Manage creative workflow, budgets and schedules for clients. Develop eLearning courses for software implementations / user guides. Establish social media presence for companies and products. Private training for computer software, hardware and photography. Direct and coordinate photo and video shoots. UX Design, eLearning Development, and general Branding.

Creative Design Manager

PHH MortgageDec 2020 - Oct 2022 • 1 yr 11 mosSupervised and streamlined internal brand identity, guidelines, and communications, reducing outsourcing costs by $10K monthly, enhancing brand consistency, and optimizing resource allocation for greater cost-efficiency. Developed and implemented a SharePoint site, centralizing legal, compliance, risk, licensing, and senior management approval processes, as well as facilitating seamless collaboration for requested edits and final creations. Discovered a previously untapped population segment, leading to developing content, design, and strategy for print and email campaigns. This effort yielded PHH's all-time highest conversion rates. Lead creative development and production across Marketing, Learning and Development, Product Marketing Partners, Sales, and Internal Communications departments.

Marketing Director

The Fineman Suarez TeamSep 2015 - Sep 2016 • 1 yr 1 moRanked in the top 1% of agents worldwide, the award-winning Suarez Team is ranked #15 internationally and #1 in Los Angeles for Keller Williams, the largest real estate brokerage in the world. The Suarez Team maintains their team philosophy in everything they do: Out Work, Out Market, Out Perform.

Marketing and Advertising

Coldwell BankerSep 2014 - Sep 2015 • 1 yr 1 moColdwell Banker, a real estate consulting company, provides consulting and brokerage services in all market segments (residential, office, industrial, retail, land, and investment), related services – such as credit brokerage, valuation services, market research – and property and facility management services.

Education

California Polytechnic State University-San Luis Obispo

Cuesta College

general education

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